First proposed over two decades ago by Robert Dudley, a professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley, the “drunken monkey” ...

"One result of nine-month 'Primate project' held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, during 1962-1963. Organized by Sherwood L. Washburn and David A.

When people think of primates, they often picture playful monkeys, intelligent apes, or even cuddly zoo animals. Pop cul ...

Adaptation and behavior in the primate fossil record / Callum F. Ross ... [et al.] -- Functional morphology and in vivo bone strain patterns in the craniofacial region of primates: beware of ...

Chimpanzees have been spotted eating and sharing an alcoholic fruit in the wild for the first time, leaving scientists perplexed about why the primates would deliberately seek such a diet.

Nonhuman primates are our closest living relatives, and no other group of mammals can remind us of ourselves the way nonhuman primates do. We will start this course by examining the phylogeny, ...

The study of foraging behaviour and cognitive ecology in primates reveals a fascinating interplay between ecological challenges and evolved cognitive strategies. Primates navigate complex environments ...

Cooperative behaviour and prosociality in nonhuman primates constitute a vital area of research that illuminates the evolutionary origins of complex sociality. Studies indicate that primates employ a ...

Positional behavior (posture and locomotion) studies are a category of primatological and anthropological field research that attempts to describe movement capabilities and expressed behavior within ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 73, No. 2 (February 2019), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) As is the case for humans, it has long been thought that nonhuman primates can be described in terms of their ...

A team of scientists from Durham University has uncovered surprising insights into the behaviour of wild baboons in South Africa using an innovative camera collar system. The findings, published in ...

Iowa State University’s Anthropology Department is offering a course during spring semester entitled Primate Behavior (Anthr 350X/550X). This is an introduction to the Order Primates with a focus on ...